CHILDREN'S COLUMN.
Lulu Take* Care af Kitty.
They brushed the clothee, they beat the clothes,
One sunny April day—
Their winter clothee, I mean—and then
They packed them all away
In paper boxes tied around
With very strongest strings,
First freely sprinkle the-n with some
Tobacco dust and camphor gum,
And other sneer? thingv.
And when, their labor done, they took
Their tea and toast* <1 bread,
"Why, where is kitty?" some one nsied,
And "I know," Lnlu said;
"She's in my dollie's biggest trunk;
I brushed and heated her;
There can' not any moths, I dess,
Det into her nice fur.
She scratched my huders when I put
The camphor snuff about.
Div' me some toast that's battered frew,"
Tney lelt it all to her and flew
To let poor kitty out.
—Harper's Young People.
The Little Cookie Boy.
Abbie's mamma made a little cookie
boy. He had a head and body, legs
and arms. She made two little places
for eyes. Then she put him in the
oven, with some other little cookie boys,
and baked them all to a pretty brown
color.
Our little cookie boy was taken out
of the oven and laid upon the table.
He saw Abbie and her brother and
sister playing. , He wondered whether
he was like them. He thought he
would ask; but Abbie's mamma had
forgotten to give him any mouth, so
the question could not get out.
He wondered next whether his hair
was curly like Abbie's auntie's. He
tried to feel, but Abbie's mamma had
forgotten to give him any elbow
joints, or make his shoulder blades
loose. lie tried to get up, but, poor
fellow, he had no knees or hips. All
lie could do was to lie still and look
around and wonder what he was made
for.
"While he was wondering. Abbie's
mamma took him and tied a blue rib
bon around his neck, ghe hung him
up on a green tree, with little lights
shining all over it. It was loaded
with pretty things. He now began to
feel quite vain. He thought he, too,
must be very beautiful to be put
among them.
One by one the things were taken
off the tree. Little faces grew bright
er as the little arms became fuller.
At last our little cookie boy was taken
off and given to a merry little girl.
She squeezed him so tight that he
wanted to scream. He did not think
she meant to kiss him, but she did put
him toward her mouth. He did not
know what to do. He could not faint
or turn pale, he was too brown. He
could not get away for he had no joints,
lie was looking at the rosy little mouth
so near him. He saw one of his own
brown arms go into that mouth. Then
he saw the other arm go in. He
wanted to cry. Before he had time
•% •
to be sorry that he could not, his head
was popped into the mouth. He knew
no more. The little rosy-lipped girl
thought he was the lx?st cookie hoy
she ever ate. My advice to mammas,
when they make little cookie boys, is
not to give them any eyes. Then they
need not look on and see themselves
eaten up.
Contrary Billy.
Billy was a peddler's horse. Every
day he drew a large wagon along the
country roads. This large wagon was
loaded with tin and brooms. It was a
heavy load to draw. He stopped at
all the houses, so that his master could
sell the brooms and tins. One day
after he had trotted along for several
miles, Billy stopped where there was
no house in sight
"Go along!" said his master.
"I won't!" said Billy.
This is the way Billy said "I won't.''
He set his fore feet out. He laid back
his ears and shook his head.
His master got out of the wagon
and patted him on the neck.
Billy would not stir.
He movl all the harness here and
there, and patted him more.
Billy would not stir.
He talked to him in a very pleasant
tone.
But Billy would not stir.
What was to be done?
The peddler wished to sell his brooms
and tins, and go home to supper. But
he could not do this if Billy refused to
do his part. He went to the back of
the wagon. A gentleman who passed
by thought he was going to whip the
horse with some heavy thing. Instead,
the peddler took a pail from the wagon-
There was some meal in this pail. He
showed this to Billy, then he walked
on and set the pail down.
Billy could see the pail.
Pretty soon Billy lifted his ears,
lie looked very good-natured. He
went forward to the pail.
Then his master let him eat the
meal. Then he put the pail back in
the wagon, and Billy trotted off brisk
ly with his load.
I The meal was better for Billy than
the whip.— Little Folks' Reader.
A correspondent of the Tropica Ag
riculturist says regarding the destruc
tion of ants: "Take a white china
plate and spread a thin covering of
common lard over it. Place it on the
shelf or other place infested by the
troublesome insects. You will be
pleased with the result. Stirring up
every morning is all that is needed to
set the trap again."
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
Mr. J. K. Farkinson, of Cincinnati,
who was recently admitted to practice
in the supreme court of the United
States, is probably the only deaf and
dumb lawyer ever admitted to that
court. lie has had an extensive prac
tice as a patent lawyer, and is sai l to
be both accurate and ready.
A few years ago a chimney made.of
paper would have seemed a preposter
ous absurdity. Vet a chimney of pape r
pulp, fifty feet high, hits lately been
put up at Breslau, in Germany. Com
pressed paper pulp is one of the least
inflammable of substances, and is now
generally recognized as superior to iron
as a material for lire-proof doors.
The combined efforts of four police-
men were recently required to carry
into the House of Commons a petition
in favor of closing public bouses on
Sunday—-one of the largest documents
of the kind ever presented to Parlia
ment. It contained 590,382 signatures
upon a continuous roll of paper, which
was 4832 yards long and weighed 350
pounds.
One Robert Griffin, of London, is
afraid that the earth will not be large
enough to hold the inhabitants it will
have some years hence. The New Or
leans Picayune suggests that Robert is
living in a very crowded part of the
world. Bet him down on an American
prairie and he will not feel so bunched
up in his mind as he does at the pres
ent moment.
Oleomargarine, it seems, is not the
only or the most disagreeable imitation
of butter which finds a place in the
market. There is an abomination called
"sucine," made from the fat of hogs,
which was the cause, not long since,
of prostrating an entire family at
Cleveland with trichinosis. The proper
punishment for the vender of such an
article would be to compel him to eat
It
It is estimated that nine-tenths of
all the mercantile failures of the United
States are due to speculations in affairs
outside the particular lines of business
in which those who fail were engaged.
This looks like an exaggeration, yet the
percentage is known to be very large.
In the haste to be rich, men make haz
ardous adventures, and, if unsuccess
ful, find themselves so crippled that
assignment is inevitable.
An investigator into the influence of
olimate upon consumptives, says that,
in choosing places of residence for
such patients, too little attention is
given to the character of the soil. It
!s shown that, other things being equal,
the prevalence of the disease is in pro
portion to the habitual dampness of
the earth. The atinospheric conditions
to be sought for are "rarity, calmness,
purity and sun warmth."
The French do not seem to be
troubled with scruples agjunst vivi
section. In Paris, not long ago, si pro
fessor of natural history announced
that he intended to make some experi
ments on quivering flesh. For this
purpose he procured a rabbit, skinned
it alive, nailed it on a board by the
paws, and proceeded to cut holes in the
wretched animal byway of illustrating
his theories. This sickening exhibition
took place before a class of young girls.
A Tidal Wave.
At 5 o'clock on the morning of May
10, 1877, a cry of terror from the beach
of Hilo, Hawaii, roused the sleepers
on the hill. They rushed down to
meet half-drowned men, women and
children, running from their ruined
homes. A tidal wave had overwhelm
ed several hundred houses and swept
away fifty. A little church stood on
the beach. The wave moved it inland
two hundred feet, scarcely injuring a
timber, but tolling its bell as an accom
paniment to its own angry roar. Sev
eral weeks after, news came that there
had been a severe earthquake at
Iquique, Peru, at 8 o'clock on the eve
ning of May 9th. As the distance is
about eight thousand miles, the tidal
wave had travelled that distance in
nine hours. Miss Cummings, in a re
cent work on the kingdom of Hawaii,
describes the remarkable tidal wave
which rolled on the beach at Hilo,
November 7, 1837. She writes:
At Hilo ten thousand natives, who
had assembled for religious instruction,
were either resting at home or gather
ed in groups on the shore. Just at
sunset, the sea suddenly began retreat
ing from the beach at the rate of five
miles an hour. The natives rushed in
crowds to see the strange sight, when
suddenly a gigantic wave formed and
rushed toward them with an appalling
roar, ltising twenty feet above high
water mark, it dashed into the village
and broke with a noise as if a mountain
had fallen. Then arose wails of an
guish. Men, women and children, the
old and the helpless, struggled in the
flood, amid their wrecked homes.
Clothing, food, domestic animals, tim
bers, and canoes were swept out to sea.
Some men rushed from the upper
shore into the billows and saved scores
of half-drowned persons. So violent
was the suction that even strong
swimmers could make little way. The
cool courage of English sailors saved
many. An English whaler was anchor
ed in the bay. The tidal wave dashed
over her as it rushed inland. The next
nstant she rose and shook the waters
from her. ller crew, seeing scores of
natives stunned and tloating out to sea,
manned their boats and rescued many.
It is a singular coincidence, that the
text of the missionary's sermon that
day was "Be ye also ready."
WORD BLINDNESS.
A RrmnrknMo Mnllrl Case. DtlfUlve
Sprtch From Defective tleinory
Dr. A. D. Williams described at a
meeting of the St. Louis medical socie
ty, a case of aphasia which had recent
ly come undei his observation, ami it is
generally acknowledged that the case
is one of the most remarkable ever put
on record. John MeWilliams, a whit"
oner and plasterer, is the victim of
this extraordinary attack.
MeWilliams came to the free dispen
sary to be treated for a supposed ail
ment of the eye. Three or four days
before, during the very sleety weather,
he fell on the sidewalk at the mouth of
the alley in which he lives striking the
whole of the right side of his body
and especially his head, at once. There
were no symptoms t j speak of at tirst,
but he felt faint and weak, lie went
into the house, and felt some trouble in
his left side, the force of tho shock
having been transmitted and caused a
contra-coup. Even now that side
seems the most affected. For two or
three days he did not know that any
ill result had followed, until he was
doing a job of plastering on a porch,
when he discovered that his sight
was defective in some way. lie wish
ed to put a piece of plaster on a cer
tain spot above his head, but could
not succeed. He could see the plaster
well enough, and the spot of ceiling,
but w hen it came to combining the
two be failed, always striking some
other spot. Returning home he fur
ther found that he could not call his
wife and son by their Christian names.
There was no paralysis, but a weak
ness of the body, lie could generally
say what he wanted if time were giv
en him, and he understood everything
that was said to him, and oould repeat
any word thnt was suggested. Another
feature of his case was that although
he was a ni;ui of considerable educa
tion, he had forgot ten how to write or to
read either written or printed words.
When he was sent to Dr. Hazard, that
gentleman tested him by pointing to
the word "surgery" in large capitals in
a medical journal, "Do you know what
that is?" "Oh, yes." "Spell it then."
"B-e—" "Oh, no! s-u-i-g-e-r-y.''
"Why, yes, that's surgery." Then the
doctor bade him try again, but again
he misname I the letters. He did not
seem to connect any meaning with the
forms. Again he could not locate ob
jects correctly with the eye. Wore a
chair pointed out to him he would rec
ognize it imuicdiataly, but if started
on a line toward it he could not turn
out of course, and would infallibly
walk into it. He could not lift his
linger up and touch his eyeball; he
would always strike to the right or
left of it if he watched the linger.
With his eyes closed, however, lie
could readily place his linger on them.
At first he thought there was some
trouble with the eyeball, and that was
why he called on Dr. Williams; but
the orb was found perfectly natural.
It was, however, deflected somewhat
out, the nerve that holds the eye in
j lace having been jarred by the shock.
The case was entirely one of amniesic
aphasia, defective speech from defect
ive memory. There were two kinds
of it. In one the centers concerned in
hearing were affected; in the other, as
McWilliams's, those concerned in sight
were impaired. His was an extraordi
nary example of word blindness. In
ordinary ataxic aphasia the patient
knows only a few things TTy the same
name, but he is able to write and
understand anything written or print
ed, and so convey his ideas. McWiL
lianis was in a situation just the con
verse of this, and his intellect must be
deeply affected.
He Smashed Their Idol.
A series of revival meetings was in
progress, and the subject on one even
ing was the book of liuth. Among
the congregation was a brother whom
the sisters delighted to hear. His lan
guage was always flowery- grandly
eloquent. Waiting for his chance, he
at length arose and said: "Brethren
and sisters, the subject this evening is
the book of Ruth. And do you know
that I never turn to the book of Ruth
without a thought coming to my mind
that there it lies, like a beautiful jew
el, between the ermine of the Judges
and the purple of the Kings." Such
an exquisite thought did not fail to
have its effect upon his admiring hear
ers. Later in the evening an elderly
clergyman came in, and, after listening
to the remarks for some time, arose
and said: "My friends, whenever I
turn to the book of Ruth, 1 am always
reminded of that beautiful quotation
from Taylor, that it lies, like a lovely
jewel, between the ermine of the Jud
ges and the purple of the Kings."
And he sat down, blissfully unaware
of the idol he had smashed.
Plenty of Orders.
"Did you get any orders ?" asked the
boss of the drummer who had just re
turned from his first trip. "Any or
ders?" echoed the drummer; "that's
the trouble; that's the trouble; that's
all I did get. I was ordered out of
every shop I went into before I could
sell a thing. Oh, yes, enough,
if that's all a fellow wnnts."
THE NEWS.
For the past ten days a remarkable and
startling state of affairs has existed at Dodge
City, Kansas. Several prominent Kansas
City attorneys left to-day for Topeka, to
petition Guv. Glick to place the town under
marshal law. The troublo is tho culmination
of a long-standing feud between two ele
raents In that place. Dodge City has long
borne the reputation of a hard town. It ts
one of the few in Kaiifenft wiibre
saloons are r\m Openly nhd gambling is
legitimate.
Ex-Speaker Egan, of the New Jorsey House
of Representatives, was committed to jail at
Newark under an indictment for attempting
to bribe Assemblyman Arinitage.
Two German residents, CJ. H. J. Mullet - ,
an undertaker, and William Hashorn, a
brewer, both married men, bad a duel with
broadswords at Bowmanville, a suburb of
Chicago. Roth were married men and the
trouble was about another woman.
Col. Torres, with :KK) troops attacked the
Apache Indians in the mountains, killing
eleven, and lost fiveof his men. The Apaches
were hopelessly routed.
Gen. Grant's mother died in Jersey City,
agedfl years.
Middle and Southern News
A dispatch from Montreal says a young
nun in the Hoehelaga Convent, who was
anxious to be released from her vows, has
had her prayer granted by the Tope and lias
returned to her family.
Strange vessels appear off the Halifax, N.
C., harbor, and act suspiciously, giving
strength to the report that English vessels
are to be blow n up while entering tbe harbor.
A tiro in the dwelling. Baltimore, caused
ihe death of Mr. John F. Adams, aged 83,
and Jane Byers, the colored cook, aged <X);
also severe injuries to another servant, who
jumped from tho window.
Ihe Domestic Exports from New Orleans
for the month of April aggregate $8,480,039
in value, an increase of $1,0(19,296 compared
with same month 'net year.
Gov. McDanielof Georgia, has been inau
•rotated. In his address he outlined hi-,
policy and called upon the people to sustain
him by a tiealty public sentiment in main
taining the credit of tho Btato and in the en*
loiTOinent of all good and wholesome laws.
The twentieth anniversaiy of death of
Stonewall Jackson was commemorated by
the Richmond Light Infantry Blues, who
paraded and proceeded to Capitol Square,
where tliey fired a salute in front of the Jack
-Dii monument.
Tho Supreme Lodge of the Knights of
Honor, in session at Gal vast on, Texas,
adopted the constitution reported last year,
which goes into effect at once. Chicago wa<
selected as the place for holding the next
convention.
John Daily, of Altoona, caught thirty large
trout one day last week. When about to be
prepared for the table thousands of small
worms were found embedded in tho flesh of
the fish.
Application lias bceu inntle at Atlanta. Ga._
for n receiver for Col. M. E. Thornton, pro
prietor of the Post Appeal. Ilia notes have
| gone to protest.
A sulphurous looking shower has fallen in
Baltimore and Baltimore county.
Washington News,
j Mr. Charles Lyman resigned his position
as chief clerk of the United States treasur
er's ofllco, and was sworn in as chief exami
ner for the civil service commission.
The President has removed Col. C. Irving
Ditty, collector of internal revenue at Balti
more, and appointed J. Henry Stlhnan in
i his place.
Col. Undn t chief of staff of Gen. Fuero, of
the Chihuahua army, who is in El Paso, says
that the movement of (ten. Crook across the
I Mexican border is not only approved by the
Mexican government but that Gen. Fuero,
has instructions to take the field iu charge of
| the troops stationed in Chihuahua to coop
erate with Gen. Crook in the Apneho cam
paign.
The Superintendent of the Railway Mail
Service hav ing been informed of the estab
lishment of quarantine at Galveston, Texas,
and New Orleans, La., has issned an order
directing that henceforth all mail for Cuba
and Mexico be forwarded via New York city-
Foreign News.
While a wedding party was passing
through a street in Paris yesterday the bride
groom was shot and killed by a rejected
rival, who then poisoned himself.
Mr. Bradlaugh has been asked by his con
stituents to retain his seat in the House of
Commons.
The dynamite conspirators were examined
in Bow street Police Court, London, yester
-1 day.
LONDON, May 11. —The dynamite conspira
tors were yesterday committed to trial in
London. The prisoners in Dublin charged
with conspiracy to murder were arraigned in
: court yesterday end O'Brien and Doyle
' pleaded guilty.
! The question of the release of the Cuban
| prisoners in Spain was discussed in the Eng
| lish House of Commons yesterday, and the
stand of the British government was criti
! cised.
The fisheries exhibition will be opened in
; London to-day.
THE MARKETS.
BALTIMORE.
FLOUR—City Mills extra.. $1 25 @5 00
i WHEAT—Southern Fultz... 1 20 @t 23
1 CORN—Southern white 03 @ 00
Do yellow 07 (ft 08
RYE-Good 70 @ 72
! OATS—Maryland 52 @ .53
! COTTON—Middling 10%@> 10%
Good ordinary !• @ 0%
I HAY—Md: and Pa. Hinot'y 14 00 (ft 16 00
i STRAW-Wheat H 00 @ 10 00
BUTTER—Western prime.. 20 @ 28
West Virginia 10 @ 21
I CHEESE—New York State
choice 15 (ft 10
Western prime 14 (ft 14%'
| EGGS 15 @ 16
I CATTLE 5 00 @6 62
I SWINE 0 @ 10%
SHEEP AND LAMBS 5 @ 6
TOBACCO LEAF-Inferior. 1 50 @ 200
Good common 3 00 @ 4 50
Middling 0 00 @ 8 00
Good to fine red 8 50 @> 10 00
Fancy 1000 @l4 00
NEW YOBK.
| COTTON—Middling upland 11 @ 11%
; FLOUR —Southern com. to
fair extra 4 50 @5 30
WHEAT —No. 1 white 1 2 5 @1 27
RYE—State 78 @ 70
CORN—Southern Ye110w.... 09 @ 70
OATS—White State 51 (# SJ„
BUTTER—State 20 @ 23
j CHEESE —State 13 @ 14
| EGGS 20 @ 28
PHILADELPHIA.
I FLOUR—Pennn. fancy 4 75 @5 10
HEAT—Pa. and Southern
red 1 2C @1 23
! RYE —Pennsylvania 76 (ft 78
, CORN—Southern ye110w.... 68 (cb 69
1 OATS 55 @ 56
' BUTTER—State 20 @) 25
EGGS - State 15 @ 17
A REMARKABLE STOUT.
Tht following narrative is lelf-explanatoty.
The letter which precedes it is a title copy of
the original* and was sent to us, together
With the details, by an officer now in the
United States Navy.
United States Flagship Nomad, |
Navy Yard, BOSTON, Mass., >
January 10 t 188-. )
A fy dear Friend —Your kind favor con
taining on my rfeltoration to
health Ift before me. When we parted thirty
inonths ago little did we imagine that either
would be brought near death's door by a dis
ease which selects for its victims those who
present an internal field of constitutional
weakness for ita first attack, because you and
I were in those days the personification of
health—and can claim this to-day,thank Qodl
Why 1 can do so will be told to-morrow,when
we meet at your dinner, as you only know
that I have passed through a terrible iriness;
my delivery from death being due to the
wonderful discovery in modioal sclonce,
made by a man who to-day stands i" the
front rank of his fellow workers- uncnualed
by any in my own opinion. That l, who
heretofore have ever been the most orthodoi
believer in the old school of medicine, its
application and results, should thus recant
in favor of that winch is sneered at by old
practitioners, may startle you, but "seeing is
believing," and when I reoount the attack
made on my old hulk, how near I came to
lowering my colors, and tho final volley
Which, through the agency above mentioned,
gave me viotory, you will at least credi® me
with just cause ior sincerity in my thunkful
ness and belief. I will also spin my yarn
anent my China cruisa. and altogether, ex
pect to entertain as well as be entertained
by you. With best wishes,
Sinoerely yours,
Rear Admiral U. 8. Navy,
non. GEORGE WENDELL,
Sinclair Place, Boston,
An autumnal afternoon in the year 188-
found the taut flagship Noraftd rounding
the treacherous and dangerous Bxtremi'y of
South America. And this dap cftrtalnly in
tended to place itself on record with those of
its predecessors marked 6tormy, its Hasti
ness in wind and weather giving nil hands
on hoard the flagship their fill in hard work
and discomforts. The record of ino Nomad
on this cruise, wh eli she was uoW complet
ing on her homeward bound passage to Bos
ton, had been most di-Agreeable. when con
sidered in tho light of heavy weather work.
From Suez to Aden, then on to Bombay,
Point de Galle, Singapore. Hong Kong.
Shanghai. Nagasaki and Yokohama, the
balance sheet stood largely in favor of old
Neptun 'H rough characteristics, but with
remarkable evenness the health and original
rover of the ship's company stood this day
as it did nearly three years ago—with one
exception. Throughout the diverse and
varied exposures incidental to cruising over
the Asiatic station, where cholera, fevers,
liver complaints, malaria, and colds of all
degrees reign in full force, none of the crew
had suffered more than teint>orary incon
venience, and thuft it seemed very hard that
now, in the closing days of the cruise, the.'e
stood nine chances for, to one against, a vfc
tory being at last scorod for the destroying
angel Death. When the Nomad reached
Shanghai in the ea:ly portion of bar cruise
tier admiral was the healthiest man aboard.
A grand specimen of manhood was he. Over
six feet in height, weighing two hundred
pounds, broad in chest and strong in limb,
lie rightly claimed for liixDsclf a full short of
Nature's blessings. While returning late one
night from a diplomatic reception at tho
Consulate at Shanghai, through overheat
ing and insufficient protection from the dan
gerous effects of the jieculiar damp and
s, aching night nir, he caught cold. "Only
a cold," remarked the admiral to the doctors
of his ship, "and easy to cure." So though:
the medical officers, but with a quiet though
insidious pr< grossion, this cold clung to the
admiral in spite of their best efforts to erad
icate it, and when the time came for leaving
Yokohama, homeward bound, the admiral re
alized that his lungs and throat were decid
edly out of order. The doctors advised re
turning home by mail steamer to San Fran
cisco, so that greater means for curing this
persistent cough might be found in tho
Naval Hospital there; but the admiral pre
ferred to stick to his ship, still imagining
that his trouble would eventually be over
come by the doctors' treatment.
No one who looked nt the admiral even in
those days imagined that he would fall a
victim tolling trouble. But it was the old
story again typified in this case. Only a
cold at first; and in spite of orthodox treat
ment the peculiar climatic effects of China
nursed it, and hastened the sure result of
such a deep-seated trouble. Time passed after
leaving Yokohama for bringing
varying symptoms in the admiral's case, and
the doctors imagined that they held the dis
ease in check at least. But with the forma
tion of tubercles, night-sweats and the now
rup.d consumption of lung tissues, which
had set j;i with alarming symptoms, the pa
tient realized that his cold had laid the seeds
of that fell agent of Death, conMumpfiou.
The hacking cough of the admiral had in
itself been sufficient food for serious consid
eration. and now, as in the warm autumn
days the flagship gallantly rode over the
blue waters of the Pacific, bound for Cape
Horn, the doctors hoped much for success.
But this boisterous afternoon found thegood
ship struggling with gigantic seas set off
from tho Cape by a fierce northerly wind.
Leaden were the heavens and sad the
hearts of all aboard, for that morning the
usual bulletin of the medical officers had "set
forth this intelligence: "The admiral is in
same condition as reported last night. A
burning feAer has been slightly reduced,
while other symptoms are as heretofore an
nounced." All understood these words
without questioning. The beloved admiral
had during the past two weeks sunk very low.
The symptoms of blood-poisoning, a torpid
liver, intense pains throughout the body,
eyesight and mental faculties affected, appe
tite gone, through inaction of that great reg
ulator—the liver. These were the means
which had reduced the admiral from tho
pinacle of health to the valley and shadow of
death. Consumption held full sway now,
and the well-known 6kill of naval djctors
was in this instance at least completely
foiled.
The admiral had issued orders for the flag
ship to touch at Montevideo for ooal, and it
was the intention of the doctors to land the
admiral there for treatment. But one man
in tho ship was wrapped in the gloom of de
spair, as standing by the weather rigging on
the poop deck ne g rzed nbsently over the
seething waste of waters. This was the ad
miral's eon, a lieutenant, and atta hel to
his father's staff. He feared that the wear
and tear of ship life would sap his father's
strength beyond endurance, and before the
ship could reach Montevideo. Among a
group of sailors gathered around one of the
great guns on the spar deck stool the captain
of the foretop, Brown, a slight but healthy
looking man. His companions were listen
ing to a recital of his sufferings from con
sumption, which had developed while he was
nttached to tho sloop-of-war Ranger , lying
in the harbor of Yokohama a year ago, this
"yarn" having been started by a discussion
about the admiral's condition. The men hid
just returned from some work around the
deck, an order for which l al interrupted
Brown's story a few moments previously.
" A year ago this day I was nove to in tho
'pill man's' sick bay in the Ranqtr, then off
Yokohama, an' I tell you, pards, 'twas no
use pipin' my number, 'cause I was nigh on
passin in my enlistment papers for along
cruise aloft," continued Brown. "Con
sumption had me flat aback, and the doctor
says it was no use to stow away his lush in
my hold Beein' that my bellows was con
demned by a higher power than he could
wrastle witn."
, "How did you pucker out of it?" asked n
gunner's mate.
' "Wa'all," replied Brown, "my Chinee
wash man came to me one inornin' an' he
says to me, "me habgot allee same Melican
man medikin, do you heap go id!' I says,
•bring it off, Chang; I buy all the same.'
'I hat afternoon Chang hovo np with fourteen
bottles of a lush, enough to kill or cure the
whole ship's crew, an' that looked fresh in
their nice wrappers. Says Ch ing, 'China
man doctor hab got plentee more, lie make
heap good well with my sick, this number
one mcdiken allee same through Yokohama.'
Wa'all, I took the bottles an' told the doctor
I was goin' to try one as by the sailiu' or
ders on the bottle, and the docter he laughed
nnd said 'twas no good, but I done as the
regulations says from the first, an' here I
am. ag'in the doctor's ideas, to be sure!'
With this triumphant assertion Brown
looked about the circle. Then, lowering his
voice, said: "Boys, I've four of those
precious bottles left —ain't give 'em all
away yet i f ter I was cured —an' if you all
think that it would not be too free with the
'old man,' suppose I go to his son there on
the poop deck an' say what I have to you,
an' askin' his pardon, say we want the ad
miral to try the stuff in my boitles, 6eein'
that they cured my consumption."
i This idea met with appro.al from all
sides. Therefore Brown walked off for an
interview with the admiral • son, with no
little anxiety in his good heart as to the re
stilt of his mission. Approaching the lieu
tenant, Browtt saluied, and asked for per
mission to state his reasons fof doing so.
This was readily granted, and Brown spoke
OU " Seeing that 1 was once cured of cott
snmptioni lieutenant, I make bold to ask
if I can tell you how, an' why 1 ve the rea
sons for *i hing you to ose on your father
What tny salvation. , A
In a few moments the lieutenant nao
story out, and nn:h to the latter s
cratification, granted a riaiy permission to
him. It did not take Brown long to run to
his ditty box, get the bottles of medicine,
and return to the lieulennnt with them.
"I'm afearedtbat the doctors will kick
ag'in the use of this blessed stuff, an
wh it will you do, sir." snid Brown, as he
placed the medicine in tl e cabin orderly s
In n Is to be taken into the adrni al's room.
"I will atteud to that, B own, and rest as
sured that your remedy will have a fair trial
in spite of any opposition. It will not harm
iny father, judging from yottr siateraent and
ihe opinion Of the Medical officers of the
" 'fhank yon. sir, an' God help the admiral
to Weather his trouble, is the prayer of all
the slap," said Brown, as the lieutenant
turned to enter the cabin.
There was no cessation in the itonn that
evening. The gale howled through the fig
ging in Wild, discordant tones; the great ship
labored through the White-capped moun
tains of water threatened to engulnh her
with each burst of their storm-whipped
crests. Within the admiral's cabin the Ar
gand lights, the comfortable furniture, and
the numerous evidences of the admirals
wanderings ovAr land And watfr as displayed
in choice bric-a-brac and trimmings, gave
to the room a warm, snug appearance, most
til easing this wild night to those within. In
his stateroom lay tne admiral, made
fortablA by all that loving hands and willing
hearts ttould suggest. By his side sat his
son, who in quiet foice Was recounting to
his father the interview with Brown, and thA
opposition met with frotn the doctors when
the idea of giving this new medicine was
btoacheu. , . A .
" You were sleeping at the time, ifltnct,
And therefore missed a laughable scene,
made so. in spite of your condition, by the
intense dislike displayed by the doctors for
this 'new-fang ed stuff/ this 'patent liquid,
Which they declared With their eoyseut
should never be given to you. Well, I cut
the matter short by saying that I would take
u.. t..0 responsibility, and with your permis
sion would administer it. That I obtained
when I found you awake, and now you are
under way with the first bottle as per direc
tions. I am satisfied, dear father, that it
will do you good, a premonition filling my
heart that at last we have found the means
of arresting the burning fever and hacking
cough w.nch have been troubling you so
much."
The admiral's reply was cut short by a
oevcre spell of coughing, during which ha
spat blood, and when finished sank back ex
flaunted. But the grateful look which he be
stowed on his son was an additional assur
ance of belief in that which the admiral had
at firs. Sight dubbed as a possible but doubt
ful me.ins of doing hiin any good. But lay
ing aside his dislike for any but old-estab
lished remedies, the admiral acquiesced in
his son's reque t, and now, after this last
"ped, admitted that the effect of the doso
liad softened the dreaded severity of the
racking cough.
. • • e •
Three weeks later found the Nomad mak
ing the harbor of Montevideo. After severe
ind prolonged weather she had rounded the
Cape and was now standing in the harbor
(or the purpose of recoaling and watering.
To one given to the study of human line.i
ineuts the facee of those aboard the flagship
this bright morning would have afforded in
finite scojie for sucti pursuit. But the source
of each man's happiness flowed from tho
same fountain of g a eful joy. The beloved
admiral was the cause of this. And why?
If you could have seen the admiral this
bright morning, dear reader, your auswer
would have been easily found in his face. A
changed man was he. Victory was perched
on his guidons! the dread enemy was s owly
retreating! The fight was a severe OLA out
with no cessation in vigilant action ana care
ful api lication of the contents of four
bottles the admiral had turned the flank of
consumpt.oa, and was sh wly bnt surely
driving nim off tl e fie d with a power which
astounded the doctors and filled All hearts
with joy and thonkfuJuess.
What was this then that had won the vic
tory for the seaman Brown, and was now
leading the admiral's shattered forces to the
same grand result? When asxed this ques
tion by oua of his officars on duty, in Slon
tevideo, the admiral, slowly lifting his hand,
replied, "I would that in letters oi gold, and
so placed that all the world could read them,
the name of this great remedy could be
shown, coupled with the genius who discov
ered i.— THE GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERT!
Dr. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y.,' the man who
has given to his fellow men the greatest re
lief from all ills that mortal flesh is heir to!"
"This is the name of the contents of that
bottle on my table, and God bless the man
who has found the secret of filling it with a
medicine at once purifying and strengthen
ing, wholesome and thorough in its results,
and claiming, in my humble opinion, noth
ing for itself that it cannot reasonably per
form. Nature's ally against tho abuse of
man!"
Well might the admiral sing the praises of
that which had so unexpectedly rescued him
from a fatal illness. When the ship anchored
the first commission for the admiral's son to
execute was a large purchase of Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discoverv, which, as the ad
miral sadly admitted, he had seen in everj
I>ort the work! around and had only admired
as an evidence of the energy and enterprise
of an American who could thus place hi 3
Golden Medical Discovery in every nook
and corner of the globe. But now he was
one more to testify to the wonderful power
of this medicine, and certainly did so in
Montevideo, by praising it up to all the high
officials who visited him.
A week later and the Nomad sailed for
Boston direct. What the condition of the
admiral was when she arrived there is shown
in his letter above. Let it be recorded to the
credit of the doctors on the flagship that
they were completely cured of all dislike for
tiie'Golden Medical Discovery, used it faith
fully on the voyage to Boston, and landed,
through its wonderful rower, the admiral
completely restored; and more than one poor
fellow who started out in the sick bay of the
Nomad. What stanch friends the Golden
Medical Discovery made in that ship!
The above, reader, is an outline of the
story, sp ;n by the admiral to his friend when
they met at tho dinner. We will not touch
on othe portions of his interesting recital
of his cruise in general, our aim being to re
cord his testimony for the greatest wonder
in med.cal science that this nineteenth cen
tury of surprising developments has pro
duced.
From the wonderful power of Dr. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery over that terribly
fatal disease, consumption, which is scrofula
of the lunsrs, when first offering this now
world-famed remedy to the public, Dr.
Pierce thought favorably of calling it his
"consumption*cure," but abandoned that
na ne as too restrictive for a medicine that
from its wonderful combination of germ-de
stroying, as well as tonic, or strengthening,
niter, tive or blood-cleansing, anti-bilious,
diuretic, pectoral and nutritive properties,
is unequaled, not only as a remedy for con
sumption of the lungs, but for all chronio
diseases of the liver, blood, kidneys and
lungs. Golden Medical Discovery cures ull
humors, from the wo st scrofula to a com
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skin, in short, all diseases caused by disease
germs in the blood, are conquered by this
powerful, purifying and invigorating medi
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its benign influences. Especially has it
manifested its potency in curing tetter, rose
rash, boils, carbuncles, sore eyes, scrofulous
sores and swellings, white swellings, goitre
or thick neck, and enlarged glands.
"The blood is the life. Thoroughly
cleanse this fountain of health by using
Golden Mtdical Discovery, and good diges
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strength and soundness of constitution are
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For weak lungs, spitting of blood, shorl
breath, consumptive night-sweats and kin
dred affections, it is a sovereign remedy. In
the cure of bronchitis, severe coughs and
consumption, it has astonished the medical
faculty, and eminent physicians pronounce
it the greatest medical discovery of the age.
The nutritive properties possessed by cod
liver oil ate trifling when compared with
those of the Golden Medical Discovery. It
rapidly builds up the system and increase
the flesh and weight of those reduced belo3
the usual standard of health by wasting dis
eases.
* # # * # # #
The reader will pardon the foregoing di
gression, prompted by our admiration for a
remedy that performs such marve ous cures,
and permit us to say that when the admiral
returned to his home jn New York the only
cloud cast upon thi happiness of thtrennfcm
with bis family was caused by the continued
illness of his el lest son, a young man of
twenty-four, whose when the Ad
tniral sailed from Montavedio, had been re
fvjrted fls succumbing to the treatment tf
the family doctor. But his father thoughtjt
otherwise; tho unfortunate young min WW
suffering severely from chronic dtsear# or
'he kidneys and bladder. Before leaving
Boston the admiral hid purchased a oopy of
Dr. Pierce's book, ' The People's Cominofl
Sfense Medical Adviser." He read this val
uable book thoroughly, and upon his arrival
homo had made up his mind as to the futurd
treatment for his son. The latter was sent
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Y., conducted by Dr. R. V. Pierce, and hie
compe ent staff of socialists, where, under
skillful treatment, the sufferer soon found
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